>I remember when Katrina flooded New Orleans, lots of people were asking why rebuild the city when it almost certainly will flood like that again. And the answe

>I remember when Katrina flooded New Orleans, lots of people were asking why rebuild the city when it almost certainly will flood like that again. And the answer was a simple, do you know how much it would cost to relocate everyone? I was working briefly with Halliburton during the Rita-Katrina time period. I think it might behoove you to take a more holistic look at this issue. I'll try to be visual in my explanation by simply asking you to Google maps of the energy pipelines in the US. Here are a couple: https://www.oilandgas360.com/america-needs-pipelines-for-at-least-the-next-20-years/ https://www.oilandgas360.com/america-needs-pipelines-for-at-... https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/wells-to-consumer/transporting-oil-natural-gas/pipeline/where-are-the-pipelines https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/wells-to-consumer/tr... I think you get the picture. And that's just energy. It's not only energy that make places like New Orleans, Galveston, and Houston critical. Let's just say that if New Orleans disappeared tomorrow, not only would the US be in for a decidedly bad time, but the nutritional intake of children in Sub-Saharan Africa would be materially affected. Some of the ports along these coastal plains are enormously important. Of course not all of them are important. I'm not here to argue that Myrtle Beach or Miami are as critical as New Orleans, New York, or the NIT. I'd just strongly urge us to look at the ports and be judicious. If Miami disappeared tomorrow, we would be fine. So yeah, who cares? If Houston disappeared tomorrow, that's a whole different thing. If that happened, I'm just saying that we'd better have a good plan in place for that contingency. Those different realities should, and currently do, inform our strategic policies on these different ports. You can't simply say, "Move this enormously important, warm water port." That's not how you "engineer an empire" so to speak. All that said, we can mitigate impact. Outside of a few Engineering history specialists, not many people realize that Chicago was built on a swamp that was prone to flooding as well. Not saying that the Chicago solution is appropriate for the situations in Miami or Houston, just saying that there are definitely ways to think long term about minimizing impact.